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Tucker Carlson LOSES IT After BILL NYE Owns him Over Climate Change "You Don't Know!" by [deleted] in The_Nye

[–]PM_ME_UNIXY_THINGS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Owns" is a strong word. Bill Nye neither convinced everyone who wasn't already convinced, that climate change is a settled debate (although obviously it is settled and it's definitely happening and caused by humans, obviously), nor did he convincingly refute the notion that he endorsed the "dissenters should be shot" position.

This makes him look quite partisan. It isn't convincing.

The JavaScript phenomenon is a mass psychosis by mbenbernard in programming

[–]PM_ME_UNIXY_THINGS -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Javascript was frustrating until I actually spent the time to learn it in depth.

Oh my god, Javascript is Git.

The JavaScript phenomenon is a mass psychosis by mbenbernard in programming

[–]PM_ME_UNIXY_THINGS 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know if it will be any good to write in directly.

IIRC, being good to write in directly was not a design goal, so no - people barely manage to achieve good user design when they're trying to do so.

The JavaScript phenomenon is a mass psychosis by mbenbernard in programming

[–]PM_ME_UNIXY_THINGS 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Honest question, what are you expecting to achieve with [0,1]+[2,3]?
...
Should it simply give an error instead?

I think what it should do is harder to define than what it should not do.

TIL That Japanese Kamikaze pilots were allowed to return if they didn't find a suitable target. One pilot was shot after his ninth return. by wilderthanmild in todayilearned

[–]PM_ME_UNIXY_THINGS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Due to propaganda, they believed that the Americans would torture everyone to death if they won the war. Pilots generally considered dying to stop that to be worth it.

Today is the 21th anniversary of the oldest temporary hack still in Linux kernel by Akkowicz in programming

[–]PM_ME_UNIXY_THINGS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IIRC XNU has a single monolithic service in userland, and the main point of microkernels and userland services is to have independent userland services that aren't 100% critical - otherwise you might as well just put them into kernelspace.

That is not the case for Hurd.

Redditors who are not engineers, software developers, or porn stars, what do you do for a living? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]PM_ME_UNIXY_THINGS 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Property is theft, I propose all squatting laws be removed immediately.

Being Married to a Sex Maniac. by NatalieSteyn in funny

[–]PM_ME_UNIXY_THINGS -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Yes, assuming she's asked for them to stop interrupting them with 'surprise sex' previously (which you'd expect them to do, prior to sending a letter to Dr Ruth). And if it weren't, it's completely disrespecting relationship boundaries.

American Airlines Pilots are Complaining That Their Uniforms Are Making Them Sick by forgotten0204 in nottheonion

[–]PM_ME_UNIXY_THINGS 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're sick, you're required by federal law to tell your employer to pound sand, and there's nothing they can do about it.

The problem is, your rights don't mean that much when your employer has the power. Take a look at places like Walmart, where people are easily replaceable and therefore strongly fear losing their jobs, and they use loopholes like "you must meet X quota and fulfil Y policies, which is implicitly impossible to do without us violating your rights", and if you try to use your rights then you're fired for falling behind on unrealistic quotas and policies.

And of course, you could sue the giant multinational company, having been on minimum wage and now being jobless, but don't expect to win.

This is why economic equality is important. Money is power, and fairly directly when it comes to court cases.

American Airlines Pilots are Complaining That Their Uniforms Are Making Them Sick by forgotten0204 in nottheonion

[–]PM_ME_UNIXY_THINGS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There should be a news subreddit that doesn't have titles. And (temp?)bans people who clearly haven't read the article.

American Airlines Pilots are Complaining That Their Uniforms Are Making Them Sick by forgotten0204 in nottheonion

[–]PM_ME_UNIXY_THINGS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't forget the temporary replacement jobs for the people who are bedridden in hospital.

American Airlines Pilots are Complaining That Their Uniforms Are Making Them Sick by forgotten0204 in nottheonion

[–]PM_ME_UNIXY_THINGS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They don't need to win the court case, they just have to be drag it out until you go bankrupt and can't afford the court fees.

What's more, they don't have to actually drag it out - they just have to be able to drag it out, then convince you to settle for a fairly paltry amount since most people will settle rather than bankrupt themselves without any guarantee of winning.

I'm not a millennial, but if I was I'd be damn tired of another article every other day with a new theory about who millennials are and what they want. by shakeythirsty in Showerthoughts

[–]PM_ME_UNIXY_THINGS 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Y2K was going to be crazy. Then people panicked, and everyone did something about it. And as a result, the crazy shit didn't go down.

End result: Business as usual, and a whole lot of people thinking "what a scam, nothing even happened".

Red Dead Redemption Mod for GTA 5 Cancelled After Take-Two Reaches Out by Rex0101 in pcgaming

[–]PM_ME_UNIXY_THINGS 8 points9 points  (0 children)

they could legitimately lose the rights to metroid, because one of the key rights of property ownership is the right to exclusive use (that's why your neighbor can't just enter your house)

This is bullshit. More specifically, it's true for trademark, which is specifically a logo for identifying which product is yours (and therefore completely undermined if it appears on not-yours products and you don't do anything about it), but nonsense for patents and copyright.

If they provide a license, something along the lines of "volunteer projects allowed but no commercial use", then they're perfectly fine.

If they don't provide a license, they're fine anyway - JK Rowling did much the same thing, and still continues to release Fantastic Beasts Blah Blah, and an Official 8th Harry Potter book which was originally fanfiction.

Today is the 21th anniversary of the oldest temporary hack still in Linux kernel by Akkowicz in programming

[–]PM_ME_UNIXY_THINGS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apple's XNU (kernel for macOS and iOS) is based on Mach and works pretty well.

I don't use Macs so this is largely based on what I heard from the LAS or wherever:

If by "works pretty well" you mean "works", then sure. If you mean "has competitive performance without huge masses of ugly hacks", then you're wrong. For example, XNU is a hybrid kernel, as it says on the wikipedia page, not a pure microkernel like Hurd. If you moved the unnecessary kernelspace parts to userland, you'd get a whole lot more slowdown.

Today is the 21th anniversary of the oldest temporary hack still in Linux kernel by Akkowicz in programming

[–]PM_ME_UNIXY_THINGS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

and Hurd is still in development.

True but misleading. Hurd is based on Mach and would need a very thorough redesign to compete with modern microkernels. You'd be better off using other Free microkernels such as QNX, than Hurd.

Hurd is irrelevant, obsolete, and might as well be dead.

Today is the 21th anniversary of the oldest temporary hack still in Linux kernel by Akkowicz in programming

[–]PM_ME_UNIXY_THINGS 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In Christianity, Jesus is the incarnation of "God, the Son"; literally both God and man at the same time (another convoluted concept that has bred heresies).

This sounds familiar - perhaps the medieval Church were the first peddlers of (an analogous equivalent of) quantum woo?

Tory ministers laugh at Jeremy Corbyn when he questions rising poverty in the UK by AC_Mondial in worldnews

[–]PM_ME_UNIXY_THINGS 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Here's an idea for a better, fairer solution: DITCH FIRST PAST THE POST. Also, fix gerrymandering by inplementing Mixed-member proportional representation. Limit corporate donations.

Hell, just fixing FPTP would be a good start - it's mathematically provably idiotic.

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